Speaker age estimation and gender detection based on supervised non-negative matrix factorization

BioMS 2011 - 2011 IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 27-32

  Bahari, Mohamad Hasan ^a   Van Hamme, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

age estimation; gender detection; general regression neural network; weighted supervised non negative matrix factorization

Indexed keywords

AGE ESTIMATION; CRIMINAL CASE; EVALUATION RESULTS; GENDER DETECTION; GENERAL REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORK; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; TELEPHONE CONVERSATION;

BIOMETRICS; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; CRIME; ESTIMATION; FACE RECOGNITION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

FACTORIZATION;

EID: 81455142341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOMS.2011.6052385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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